Chapter 226 Winning glory for the country is too exciting

Along with Gu Jingjing's Weibo updates, the Internet, which was already crowded with countless people, quickly exploded. Fortunately, Xinghuo Weibo had experienced rounds of strong shocks and had long been super stable, and would not easily experience paralysis or downtime.

Shi Xiaomeng was the first to follow suit. "A loss of 800 yuan for a mobile phone? Mr. Wang is really as impressive as I thought. China sells over 80 million mobile phones a year. If he sells million, he will lose billion yuan?"

"I vaguely know that Spark Mobile has established a screen research center with a team of more than 200 people. All of them have a base salary of 4.8 yuan a year, which means the annual salary is more than 1000 million yuan. However, the leaders are all second-level professors, with a monthly salary of 1.1 yuan. They only work eight hours a day on weekends, and have various holiday benefits. They get 16 salaries a year, which is 17.6 yuan."

"If we take an average, a screen research center would cost 20 to 30 million yuan or even more just for salaries, not to mention research equipment, instruments and other investments. Even the rent for setting up an office base is not cheap. If the screen investment is so high, should other components be invested as well?"

"With this calculation, Mr. Wang's wealth as the richest man won't last for many years. But don't worry, Mr. Wang, if you are out of money, everyone can donate 1 cents to you through crowdfunding, and together you can start a second business!"

Yang Zixi was also very active and responded quickly. "Our Spark Group's employee system is striving to reach 100,000. Not counting the mobile phone factory, how many hundreds of millions of dollars are paid in salary each year? I really want to cry when I meet a good boss. It's a pity that Mr. Wang is taken too early."

Wu Di was furious and specifically @Yang Zixi, "Do you want to give me a green hat?"

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The originally serious discussion about the richest man's assets of more than 970 billion yuan suddenly declined, and there were many more popular jokes and funny comments.

But other Internet celebrities, including Lei Jun, also came out to post on Weibo to promote the market strategy of the Spark mobile phone, which is to create a new platform...

A blatant commercial war with Apple 4 to grab the platform.

Every iPhone 4 user, no matter what they spend on this phone, as long as it is a virtual product, the money spent will be taken by Apple. If you spend 100 yuan to buy virtual items such as game recharges, penguin coins recharges, etc., Apple will take 30 first. If 1 million netizens spend 3 million, Apple will take million first.

Xinghuo Mobile is willing to let netizens get bargains. Even if it forms a platform advantage in the future, it will not charge as much as Apple, but only 10% or 20%. This is in the hope of making a profit before going public.

I hope that consumers who are considering buying a mobile phone can wait for the Spark and try out whether the Spark phone can be used well and have fun.

Pony Ma also stood up and announced to the whole network that tonight is the time when Big Penguin will give out 10 million cash red envelopes and billion card voucher subsidies. He is also one of the major shareholders of Spark Mobile. He hopes that after giving out this wave of benefits, netizens will support Spark Mobile and support CEO Lei Jun.

With all the big guys doing this, netizens gradually believed that the Spark phones that were being assembled on the production line were really so cheap! !

If you dare to offer a bargain, we dare to wait!
Who wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to take advantage of something?

From the first time Wang Chengguang took a random photo online to fight human trafficking and take the initiative to do something righteous, to the 3 million yuan charity donation for major disease relief, this is a cycle of welfare delivery.

In reality, there are too many people who have benefited. Even last year’s New Year’s Eve, with 10 million red envelopes and billion vouchers, tens of millions of netizens benefited.

There are so many precedents to prove this.

Lei Jun has explained it clearly. Selling mobile phones at a loss does not mean giving away money for free, but rather it means collecting platform taxes and making a profit by taking commissions. It is nothing more than the Internet's online money-burning war that has spread to the offline world.

There is nothing more to say.

This was in 2010, when many people's salaries were not that high. Not everyone could afford the Apple iPhone, which retailed for 4999 yuan and 5999 yuan in the mainland.

Countless netizens began to gather under the Weibo posts of Lei Jun, Pony Ma and others, and began to ask when the Spark phone would be released.

As long as the smartphone is good to use, they don’t mind waiting or even switching camps.

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A little after 10 am on October 16th.

At the Shanghai headquarters of Ele.me, Jack Ma browsed Weibo for a while before walking out of the office and said to his secretary, "Is Zhu Suosuo's flight delayed? If not, let's go and we'll pick her up at the airport."

The secretary looked puzzled and asked, "Mr. Ma, are you going to pick me up at the airport in person?"

Jack Ma smiled brightly, "After all, she is a female sprinter who is more popular than the current Liu Feiren in Shanghai. We have attracted so many consumers and users by relying on her fame. She deserves to be treated with respect."

At the beginning of August, Ele.me had more than 8 million consumer users. The areas south of the Yangtze River, including some major cities north of the Yangtze River, were Ele.me's main focus.

Now, more than two months have passed, and the number of Ele.me's registered consumers has officially exceeded 2010 million. Just as Shi Xiaomeng mentioned, more than 2 million mobile phones were sold in China in , of which to million were smartphones.

Anyone who can afford a smartphone basically needs a 3G signal or WiFi, especially with the combination of WeChat wallet, red envelopes and QR code payment.

This is already unfolding with the same horror that would have occurred two or three years later.

Whenever you go to any place where retail transactions take place, most merchants will recommend that you use WeChat Pay, and those retail giants are the most enthusiastic promoters.

Then Apple came out and became popular among the rich, and Spark also...

Can Ele.me attract 2000 million or even 3000 million consumer users before the end of the year? Zhu Suosuo is very attractive, after all, the Asian Games will be held in November.

How many netizens are counting on this heroic female sprinter to defeat Korean star Ma Tai and other national athletes!

This kind of honor of bringing glory to the country is so stimulating.

When the secretary nodded and contacted the driver, Jack Ma sighed again. What a fuck! Both Xinghuo Lao Wang and Xiao Ma Ge went to make mobile phones. They seemed to be coming in with great momentum and they wanted to succeed in one step, and it was only a year's difference.

Those old rivals are no longer satisfied with just grabbing platforms and users online, but are now directly involved in mobile terminals... Well, it's still Jobs' fault.

It was Steve Jobs who wanted to build this mobile phone into a new platform starting from the iPhone 1.

Apple's current market value is 2800 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to 1.9 trillion RMB. Just look at the glory of Steve Jobs. It is normal for Wang Chengguang, Pony Ma and others to have new ambitions and want to copy and plagiarize each other's success.

Where are the trillion-dollar companies in mainland China now? If there are any, they are super banks.

Even if Big Penguin swallowed up Taobao and Zhifubao, its value would only be close to 5000 billion Hong Kong dollars. One Apple is equal to 4 Big Penguins.

Jack then realized that the failed 80s guy was running too fast. The ones in the Spark system were the fattest pigs. No wonder he had to spend money and spend money again.

The other party went to Peking University to study for a master's and doctorate degree. Was he trying to avoid the limelight? Or was he using Peking University's connections to keep a low profile?
No matter which one it is, he is still going to create a business in the food delivery field.

An hour later, when Jack Ma picked up Zhu Suosuo at the airport, he spoke very nicely and took this female sprinter who had already dominated the field of track and field sprinting back to the company. Jack called out more than 10 million consumer users, of which more than 90% had actually placed orders on Ele.me, and of those who had spent RMB, 20% to 30% became regular users who spent money on ordering food.

What does this mean? A meal costs only a dozen yuan. If 250 million users only order food once every two days, that means about 3700 million transactions in two days, or to million yuan in turnover per month.

If we take into account the consumption of other less frequent users, the total amount will be even higher.

Therefore, 10 million Ele.me consumer users are more valuable than 100 million Penguin users. Jack has already started to raise funds, with a starting price of 100 million US dollars.

This reception of Zhu Suosuo was not only to arrange subsequent traffic operations to allow this five-gold medal female sprinter to continue promoting the brand, but also to discuss whether she should pursue financing.

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On the night of Double Ninth Festival, the whole country celebrates.

When Wang Chengguang was driving home from Peking University, he received a call from Zhu Suosuo, saying that Ele.me would transfer 15% of its equity after raising US$ million.

Zhu Suosuo's 3% is equal to a market value of 2000 million dollars. Zhu Suosuo doesn't have enough money...

Wang Chengguang smiled and replied, "It's okay. It's not worth it for you to resell it now. I'll introduce you to someone from the bank. You can just take out a loan to raise funds. The valuation increase of Ele.me will definitely be much faster than the bank interest."

At present, even though JD Adong has a promotion contract with track and field goddess Xu Hongdou, and the support of Spark and Big Penguin, it has only obtained 600 million consumer users.

This is not just a matter of starting late. Adong also has to take into account the development of the entire JD.com Mall, and Jack only has Ele.me to rise.

Zhu Suosuo hurriedly smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang. Thank you so much. I don't know how to say more. Anyway, you can see how I perform in the future."

She was a little inflated. She had held the 3% for just over half a year, and it was already worth 2000 million US dollars. If she resold it, she would pocket more than million yuan, which was much more than what she could earn as a female star endorsement or shooting commercials.

As long as the chasing capital ratio is maintained, this 3% will continue to rise!!

It's true that housing prices have never risen so fast and so exaggeratedly. Even the earliest Internet celebrities like Shi Xiaomeng, Lin Xia, and Wu Di don't make money this way.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "You don't have to be so anxious now. Your strength has reached a bottleneck. You should slow down your daily training. If you can wait for another year or two to achieve the result of dominating Asia, it won't be too late to compete for medals in the 2012 Olympics."

Until now, Zhu Suosuo and Xu Hongdou are still hovering around a rhythm of more than 11 seconds, which is, after all, a world-class speed.

Those who can run under 10 seconds are the strongest contenders for Olympic and World Championships gold medals. As long as Wang Chengguang's medicinal food level does not continue to improve, it will be difficult for Zhu Suosuo and Xu Hongdou to run under seconds no matter how much they practice.

On the other hand, Jiang Nansun has not practiced much for such a long time, but she is striving to improve her score from 11.92 to 11.86 and then to 11.78.

After more than a year, their growth has reached a bottleneck.

Zhu Suosuo said hurriedly, "Boss Wang, I will listen to you. I just have a little doubt. I have come this far with my determination. If I relax, I am afraid I will regress instead of making progress."

Wang Chengguang was speechless. "You think the medicinal food I give you is free? You don't have to keep taking it for a while. Keep up this form. You can try to sprint in the finals of next year's World Championships."

"And you can try the 400-meter track, including the 4x100-meter relay, and look for new teammates."

After chatting with Zhu Suosuo for a few more sentences, he hung up the phone.

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Another new day.

Near the Summer Palace on the North Fourth Ring Road, Wang Chengguang, Wu Xiaowei and Gu Jingjing arrived at the Spark Building headquarters together. Looking at the building that had been completely renovated and had been empty for more than a month, the three of them looked very happy.

After nearly three years, this headquarters is now up and running.

There are eight floors above and below ground, covering nearly 16 square meters, which can accommodate many teams and employees.

Wu Xiaowei couldn't wait to take him to the building for a tour. "Your CEO's office on the sixth floor is over 6 square meters in total, and the built-in rest room is 200 to square meters. Isn't it really suitable for daily living?"

Gu Jingjing smiled and nodded, "Anyway, it's much more spacious than the one in Guomao. The first floor there is only about 1700 square meters, while the first floor here is nearly square meters."

It occupies a large area and is naturally spacious and airy.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "Let's give it another ten days or half a month. Anyway, they will move here one after another before and after the Asian Games, starting with the media headquarters, then to Xinghuo Weibo, Payment, and WeChat. If they move one by one, they can't move everything. This building can accommodate at most 8,000 to 9,000 people."

"We can only move the main leadership and core institutions of each department in, and we still have to keep branches outside."

The building here only occupies a few dozen acres of land. When it was first planned, no one expected that Xinghuo would develop so smoothly. It would be a miracle for others to run a Weibo business successfully in three years.

Wang Chengguang has produced a large number of core plates in succession.

Spark Video, which has been silent and has not made any big waves at this stage, is no longer a small company. Penguin Video of Penguin is also about to come out. Xiao Ma Ge even talked to him about whether he should let big companies produce their own film and television dramas.

We also discussed whether or not to use capital operations to promote some new stars who may not have much talent but are extremely popular and can generate profits by monetizing their fan base.

Wang Chengguang is not interested in that model of promoting people... In fact, the internet celebrities of all sizes in Xinghuo are the kind that Xiao Ma Ge mentioned, but he has always been committed to cultivating various major events and public welfare, and really does not want to invade the film and television industry.

He said that the Spark System would not promote new movie and TV stars in that way, and if it were to promote any, it would be sports and Olympic stars. This made Brother Xiao Ma speechless for a long time.

Wang Chengguang thought about it, picked up his phone and called Xiao Ma again, "Pony, you want to learn how to use capital to promote movie stars. I'll give you a simple suggestion. It doesn't matter if you can promote a few newcomers, but the pay should be tied to the market acceptance rate."

"Just give a basic salary, don't give too much. If the TV series you make is a big hit, you can give more dividends afterwards. If the TV series you make is a flop and gets a lot of criticism, there will be no follow-up. We are a big company, and we have to be more or less responsible to the audience. This is also more conducive to controlling costs."

Xiao Ma's eyes lit up, "What you said is a good idea, I'll let us discuss it more. When will you bring your female flyer to eastern Guangdong? Then I'll introduce you to some good friends."

It is almost November and preparations for the Asian Games are in full swing, waiting for a group of flying athletes to give wonderful performances.

(End of this chapter)